This is my response to a QCS(Queensland Core Skills) test. When we walked into the test room we had no idea what we were supposed to write about. We were give the theme of ‘Time’, for which we were given a stimulus sheet and 2 hours to write whatever we could. I came up with this.

These days, most of us spend three quarters of our lives, working. And what is all of this work for? To save money so that when we retire, and were old and crippled, we can enjoy our tea and biscuits while sitting in our big comfortable chair that our superannuation bought us? Now, let me ask you, is it really worth it? Is it really worth wasting so much of our time, so much of our lives, all so we can be comfortable when were old? I think not, I think i would much rather work to live, not live to work. Because what is the point in spending most of your life doing the same thing day in, day out? I know I would like to LIVE my life, my whole life. I’d like to spend my time enjoying my stay on this beautiful earth. Because after all, our stay here is so short, and often cut even shorter.

One of my favourite quotes is “we cannot save time. We are forced to spend it at a fixed rate of 60 seconds every minute. In work time is money. How should we manage this irretrievable resource? How should we fill our days?” Reading this really helps you to grasp the idea that our time on this planet is short. So, we should make the best to enjoy it. Now, let me ask you, are you really enjoying your life, sitting there at that desk, driving that truck day after day?

Okay, so I’m not saying we should all just quit work and go out on a safari, or jump out of a plane. But, I am saying that is this day and age, too many of us are working too hard. We need to put down that Parker, get off that laptop and live a little. There is no point in wasting your time, your life. Because when you’re done with work you will be too old to really enjoy life. You...

...True or False
1. The three primary goals of HRM is to attract an effective workforce, to maintain an effective workforce, and do develop an effective workforce.
2. Having proper personnel issues becomes irrelevant if you have a good idea or the right management trend, such as quality circles or TQM.
3. Personal capital refers to the economic value of the knowledge, experience, skills, and capabilities of employees.
4. Human resources information system is an integrated computer system designed to provide data and information used in HR planning and decision making.
5. Contingent workers are people who work for an organization, but not on a permanent or full-time basis.
6. Telecommuting means using computers and telephones at the office.
7. The first three steps involved in attracting an effective work force are HR planning, choosing recruiting sources, and selecting the candidate.
8. With the matching model, human resource specialists exploit the newly hired employees.
9. Job design is a systematic process of gathering and interpreting information about the essential duties.
10. Orientation is the process of determining the skills, abilities, and other attributes a person needs to perform a particular job.
11. One of the fastest-growing approaches to recruiting today is the use of the Internet.
12. Validity is the relationship between an applicant’s...

...Chapter 7: THE LIVES AND WORKS OF MASTERS IN VISUAL ARTS
Reporter: Francis B. Corral
BSECE II
* Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
- an Italian master of the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a draftsman, an accomplished engineer, and a pioneer investigator, in the natural sciences.
Life and works in painting
* Born in 1452 in Vinci, Republic of Florence (now in Italy), Leonardo spent his youth in Tuscany and in 1469, went to Florence with his father . Shortly there after, he entered the studio of sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio as an apprentice, where he received a diversified training, until 1476. He worked with Verrocchio on the painting of the “ Baptism of Christ “
In 1492, Leonardo went to Milan, where he remained in the service of the court of Ludovico Sforza until 1499, painting portraits, inventing machines of war, staging theatrical pageants and designing town plans and architecture.
It was in Milan, too, that he painted the famous Last Supper, which was ordered by Ludovico il Moro for the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.In 1499, Leonardo made a short visit to Mantua and proceeded from there to Venice and then to Florence, arriving there in 1500 almost 20 years after he had left, he remained there until 1506 although he visited Rome during 1502 and 1503. Soon after his arrivral, he excuted a cartoon, now in the National Gallery, London,...

...22 August 2008 - In January 2008, the Supreme Court validated long-term live-in relationships as marriages. A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat with P Satasivan declared that children born out of such a relationship will no longer be called illegitimate. "Law inclines in the interest of legitimacy and thumbs down 'whoreson' or 'fruit of adultery'," the court added.
The apex court judgment was followed by similar suggestions from the National Commission for Women (NCW). In June this year, in response to recommendations made by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the NCW sought a change in the definition of 'wife' as described in Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which deals with maintenance. The NCW recommended that women in live-in relationships should be entitled to maintenance if the man deserts her.
Emphasising the need for broadening the definition of wife in the CrPC section, NCW officials said there had been cases where the man led the woman to believe that he was unmarried or was divorced or widowed and went ahead with the formalities required by marriage laws or the custom governing him. As a way of countering this, NCW chairperson Girija Vyas suggested that even if a marriage was not registered, a woman's claim would stand if she provided enough proof of a long-term relationship. This underscored the Supreme Court's stand that a man and woman, having lived together for long, would be...

...﻿Isaac Lee
Language A: English HL
World Literature Paper
6/3/2013
Word Count: 1215
A New Perspective on Chinese History
Isaac Lee WLP Ball 1
The novel, To Live, by Yu Hua was banned in China when it was first published because the novel exposed the faulty rule of the Communist party in China. This literary masterpiece depicts four decades of Chinese history, including historic events as the Sino-Japanese war, the civil war, the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. During this time of culture and history, the main character, Fugui, experienced many endeavors in life. Ironically enough, the novel is called "To Live" when so many of the characters die in the story. Fugui is the only significant character in the novel that remains alive at the end of the story. The author, Yu Hua, beautifully articulated the political turmoil of the Chinese Civil war into the literary perspective of Fugui’s life and thus the novel, To Live, manifested. Hua portrays the civil war in different stages to embody Fugui’s life and growth as a person throughout the novel.
In the first few pages of the novel, Fugui’s life was going well. “I’m the prodigal son of the Xu family” (Hua 10). This quote embodies Fugui’s life at the start of the story. Fugui was born into the upper class and married the daughter of a rich family that owned a rice store. Fugui had a comfortable living and the life...

...probably was given his first lesson by his father, but when he was at the tender age of nine both of his parents died. Bach went to live with his older brother. Who do you think his brother was? Why, of course, another organist in a nearby town. At the age of fifteen, he left his brother and tried to make it on his own. At eighteen, Bach became the church organist in Arnstadt, but he soon conflicted with church authorities. At age twenty-three, he went to Mühlhausen, and married his cousin, Barbara. After these two jobs, Bach became the court organist of Weimar. While involved in the Lutheran church, Bach composed cantatas, multi-movement works for the choir and orchestra. He had to write one for each week. In his cantatas, Bach needed to include a chorale, which is the sermon's general message. His most note-worthy post was as court conductor for the prince of Cöthen. His salary was much higher, and he was not required to compose church or organ music. The prince was a Calvinist, and therefore a simple psalm was sufficient for the service. Between 1717 and 1723, he led the prince's orchestra, and the Bradenburg Concertos arose from this period. In 1723, he became a director of music at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, a job he held until his death.
Perhaps the most studied work of Bach was the Well-Tempered Clavier. Bach uses the fugue in this work, and the fugue is divided into a subject, countersubject and...

...both the rise and the fall of the Roman empire. Why wouldn't I like to live forever if I could manage to see and do things that would simply be impossible in the short time span of a normal human life.
Living forever would be an amazing experience. Imagine the possibilities, you could explore the wonders of the world, not only the seven, but everything you can from the lowest depths of the seas to the host peeks of the mountains or even beyond that, like to outer space. With all that knowledge you could write books and teach people about all those places where no one else can go. Besides that you would also be able to learn languages, and then meet people from all over the world. Hearing their stories would help you learn about all the vast cultures out there, maybe understand them better, this could all lead to a more peaceful community due to the fact that you can help world leaders learn about the cultures of other countries and how to negotiate with them. When you looking back at great historical events or buildings like the pyramids of the Great Pyramid of Giza and not only be able to tell people that you've seen them but to be able to tell them "I saw them being built"and how. To be capable to tell people of the time you stood among the people who rose against the barricades during the French revolution, or when you saw both the rise and the fall of the Roman empire. Why wouldn't I like to live forever if I could manage to see and do...

...﻿Work 6118
Meng Jiang
SID: 430588217
Introduction
In this report, I will draw on theories into my work experience in a local English training school in my hometown, to analysis their communication system, and then make some recommendations to improve their school performance.
Description
Last summer, I worked as a registration assistant in a private languages school called Younger; it is a small private English training school, which aims at improving student’s overall English ability to get higher score in English Test. Within Younger organization, the formal communication between school leaders and employees that rely on paper-based format; the informal communication occurs teachers and students that prefer to face-to-face chats. According to the school communication study of Fred C. the formal communication which focuses on exchange the information regarding the work-related of school, and informal communication which emphasises the unofficial message that unrelated to the schools education activities. For Younger school case, I will draw the classical approach theories to analyse formal communication, and using the culture approach to examine the informal communication. Through the analysis, I will find some problems about Youngers’ communications, and give them some suggestions, to help them get improvement in the future.
Analysis
Theory 1
Younger’s formal communication system between employer and employee is...